Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.