His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear make...
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man write about a man.
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
If the world were merely seductive that would be easy. If it were merely challenging that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a de...
Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their innoc...
Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife a man who shaves and takes a train and then rides back to shave again.
Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other f...
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead...
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes...