Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.