McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

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.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

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.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.