Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.