The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

Write while the heat is in you.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.