There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.