Conflict is the very essence of life.

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

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

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

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.

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.