I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.