Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man.