There is no friend as loyal as a book.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.