The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.