The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.