I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

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.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

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

Love alone could waken love.