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 force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.