The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.