Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.