I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.