I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

What's everybody's business is nobody's business.

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.