Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.
I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.
We bless and curse ourselves.
We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.
Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.