No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.