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.

Cruelty is the only sin.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

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