Booth Tarkington

“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.”

“Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.”

“He had passed from the lowly state of a boy to the priestly station of a man.”

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

“With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization - that is, in spiritual civilization.”

“The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we're not pretending.”

“Friendship is to be valued for what there is in it, not what can be gotten out of it.”

“Every man is a poet when he is in love.”

“A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.”

“Let us be kinder to one another.”

“Fame is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.”

“It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them.”