But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.