The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?