Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

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.

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.

Nature always levies her tribute.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.