You Can't Wish A Body Any Worse

One Reason We Haven't Any National Art Is Because We Have Too Much Magnificence. All Our Capacity For Admiration Is Used Up On The Splendor Of Palace-like Railway Stations And Hotels. Our National Tympanum Is So Deafened By That Blare Of Sumptuousness That We Have No Ears For The Still, Small Voice Of Beauty.

Help That Is Not Positively Necessary Is A Hindrance To A Growing Organism.

The Most Elementary Experience Of Life Proves That The Effects Of Compulsion Last Exactly As Long As The Physical Or Moral Club Can Be Applied.

There's No Such Thing As Luck. Nothing Ever Just Happens To Anybody. ... Nothing Can Really Happen To A Person Till He Lets It Happen.

I Never Heard Of Anybody Who Admired The Character Of Sheep. Even The Gentlest Human Personalities In Contact With Them Are Annoyed By Their Lack Of Brains, Courage And Initiative, By Their Extraordinary Ability To Get Themselves Into Uncomfortable Or Dangerous Situations And Then Wait In Inert Helplessness For Someone To Rescue Them.