The maker of fun whose humor was clean and genuine is a benefactor of his
age, not to say a minister of righteousness. The hand of Justice lays an
unfading wreath of honor upon the grave of the man who has helped to keep
the world glad. He has planted roses where otherwise there would have been
only thorns.
In all writing...two things are important. One is to say the right thing.
The other is not to say the wrong one.
The opportunity [of the writer] is glorious and the peril is serious,
because men will become what they think, and the world will conform to
what they become. Thought life is fundamental.
In trying to make science read like a fairy tale, one must not make a
fairy tale of it.
...the message and not the form is the immortal part.---After all, it does
not seem to be to the advantage of the poet to be abjectly the slave of
his style.