If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.