Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

Borrowed illusions are better than none.

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.