Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.