Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.