No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.