What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.