You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.