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.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

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

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.