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

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

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.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

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

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