Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.