One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.