I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?