Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

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

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.