It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.