The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.

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

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.