The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.