Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.