To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

The worst government is the most moral.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.