There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.