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.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

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.

Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.