The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

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

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

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.