Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.