In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.