A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.