Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.