A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.