Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

Good men do the most harm.

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.