High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.