The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.