A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

Success is a great healer.