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.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.

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

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.