“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

“Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?”

“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means makingtrouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”

“She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”