With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.