The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

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.

The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

I am an American – Chicago born.