Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

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.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

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

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

Old men make wars that young men may die.