Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

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

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.