I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.

I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.