You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

The problem with education is school.

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.