A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.