On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder. An it isn't so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires - though a lot of churches are that, too. My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.