There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.