I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.