One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?