If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.