Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

Nature's first green is gold.

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.

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.