Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.