As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.