Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.