The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.