The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.