Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts som….

I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritu….

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either..

They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwel….

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some..

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough..

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like wai….

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous..

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously..

I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual….

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world..

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband..

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied..

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field..

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on ….

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them..

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered,….

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for….

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody..

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care ….