The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

A yawn is a silent shout.

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.