Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.