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

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

There is no advance without strife.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

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)

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

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