We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

It does the heart good to look at you.

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.