The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.