“Truth may be found in the heart of a philosopher but seldom in the figures of a statistician; it is far too delicate a thing to be pinned down to columns of numbers on ruled paper.”

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 65

Source: "The Road" U.S. 1 (1938), The Book of the Dead

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles

Reported in Andrew Stuart, Letters to the Right Honorable Lord Mansfield (1773), p. 29.

They require that sorrow should find a voice ; now the most soothing sympathy is that which guesses the suffering without a question.
No.7. Rob Roy — DIANA VERNON.
Literary Remains

Source: The Elements of Drawing

"Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936), p. 14
Context: The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning. It is at its best when it is presented by a poet who feels rather than makes explicit what his theme portends; who presents it incarnate in the world of history and geography, as our poet has done. Its defender is thus at a disadvantage: unless he is careful, and speaks in parables, he will kill what he is studying by vivisection, and he will be left with a formal or mechanical allegory, and what is more, probably with one that will not work. For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected.

Pennsylvania Coal Company v. H. J. Mahon, 260 U.S. 415, 415 (1922).
1920s