Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

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

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

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.