It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.