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.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

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.

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)

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.