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

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

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.