I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

The funniest things are the forbidden.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.