Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.