Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them – are ruinous!

It was not a particularly sane spectacle, that impatience to be off to some place that lay not only in the distance, but also in the future – to which no line of road carries you with absolute certainty across an interval of time full of every imaginable chance and influence. It is easy enough to buy a ticket to Cincinnati, but it is somewhat harder to arrive there. Say that all goes well, is it exactly you who arrive?

If we like a man’s dream, we call him a reformer; if we don’t like his dream, we call him a crank.

No, no. I understand that. And I quite agree with you. But you know I’ve always contended that the affections could be made to combine pleasure and profit. I wouldn’t have a man marry for money, – that would be rather bad, – but I don’t see why, when it comes to falling in love, a man shouldn’t fall in love with a rich girl as easily as a poor one. Some of the rich girls are very nice, and I should.

Live all you can. It’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t matter what you do – but live. This place makes it all come over me. I see it now. I haven’t done so – and now I’m old. It’s too late. It has gone past me – I’ve lost it. You have time. You are young. Live!

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

All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it’s ours.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it’s too late to let her know that he sees it.

The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.