“You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle. ”

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

“There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War.”

“She says it is a good thing to have no sense of how it is done in the things that amuse you. You should have one absorbing occupation and as for the other things in life for full enjoyment you should only contemplate results. In this way you are bound to feel more about it than those who know a little of how it is done.”

“I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing”

“I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.”

“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous”