Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.