A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.