It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.