Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Ants are a curious race

The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.