I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began. If in one small degree it shows him where he can be...gentler, saner, cleaner, kindlier...it is a wonder-working book. If it opens his eyes to one beauty in nature he never saw for himself and leads him one step toward the God of the Universe, it is a beneficial book.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.