The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.