A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

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.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.