Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.