"For all symbols are fluxional; all language..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.”

“All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.”

“We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.”

“One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.”

“Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.”

“Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?”

“The best way to get your point across is to entertain.”

“It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.”

“Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.”