Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.