We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

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.

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

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

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

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.