All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.

Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

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

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.