We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.