As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

It is only doubt that creates.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.