There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

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.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

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

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

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.