“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

“It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.”