What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.