A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

Civilization begins with distillation

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.