Money was their God; work their religion.

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.

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.

Nature always levies her tribute.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

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.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.