The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

We couldn't live without comedy.