When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.