One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

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

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

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

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.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

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