because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.