The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.