No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.