The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.