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.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.