Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.