If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.