Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing I never before have had. I certainly do love a number of the writers, the painters, the musicians, and the sculptors that I meet here. ... Next to the sunshine, I appreciate it the most of anything in California.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.