Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.