I am I plus my circumstances.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.