She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals