Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

It were not best that we should all think alike.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.