The human mind can no more produce an original thought than a tree can bear an original fruit. As well might one cry for an original note in music as expect an original idea from a human brain. One wishes our friends, the critics, would grasp this simple truth, and leave off clamoring for the impossible, and being shocked because they do not get it.

Human thought is not a firework, ever shooting off fresh forms and shapes as it burns; it is a tree, growing very slowly - you can watch it long and see no mov…

How dull, how impossible life would be without dreams - waking dreams, I mean - the dreams that we call 'castles in the air,' built by the kindly hands of Hope…

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all …