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

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.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

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.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.