No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.

Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.