Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

Happy people do a great deal for their friends.

I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.