Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.