[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.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.