The end of culture is right living

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.