Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.