Wisdom Is The Abstract Of The Past,

I Hate Facts. I Always Say The Chief End Of Man Is To Form General Propositions - Adding That No General Proposition Is Worth A Damn.

Chicago Sounds Rough To The Maker Of Verse. One Comfort We Have - Cincinnati Sounds Worse.

Science Is A First-rate Piece Of Furniture For A Man's Upper Chamber, If He Has Common Sense On The Ground-floor. But If A Man Hasn't Got Plenty Of Good Common Sense, The More Science He Has, The Worse For His Patient.

What Refuge Is There For The Victim Who Is Oppressed With The Feeling That There Are A Thousand New Books He Ought To Read, While Life Is Only Long Enough For Him To Attempt To Read A Hundred?

We Call Those Poets Who Are First To Mark, Through Earth's Dull Mist The Coming Of The Dawn, Who See In Twilight's Gloom The First Pale Spark, While Others Only Note That Day Is Gone.