Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.