I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.