Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.