If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.