Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.