Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.