If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.