No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull

Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.