The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.