The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.