The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.