The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility