Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.

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

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

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

Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.