There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

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

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

The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.