To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.