Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.