A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.