Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.