For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.

Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.