"The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the walls withdraw, the weight is lifted, the specters fade. Nerve-ends that stuck…"

"Orange bitters make a good astringent for the face. Never put them in anything that is to be drunk."

"New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan, while the American empire care…"

"The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that…"

"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom."

"Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey."

"Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate."

"No one can say fully what sublimity means, or how the awe or terror or exaltation inspired by the earth in torment af…"

"Biography seemed to be no more than a high-spirited game of yanking out shirttails and setting fire to them."

"The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act."