War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.