The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.