Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

Don't dream your life, but live your dream