A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.