To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship. - Sherwood Anderson

An American town worked terribly at the task of amusing itself.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I was born fussy, liked cleanness and orderliness about me and had already been thrown too much into the midst of shiftlessness. The socialists and communists I had seen and heard talk nearly all struck me as men who had no sense of life at all.