Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.