the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.