To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

There is no beauty without order.

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.

Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.