There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

... nothing is so boring as devotion.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.