There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.