A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

If one is honest there is no need to remember.

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.