Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

The supreme adventure is being BORN

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.