Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

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.

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

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

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