1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

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