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

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties.

Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.