Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

There nearly always is a method in madness.