You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again