My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.