Old habits are strong and jealous.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.

A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now the other.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.