If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips. No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses.

The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

The power of an attitude is amazing