All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.