It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

Literature is my Utopia

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.