All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it.

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.