Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.