The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.