“Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.”

“Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.”

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”

“For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.”

“The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.”

“We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.”

“Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.”