“The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.”

“No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.”

“The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.”

“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”

“I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.”

“It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win hold or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.”

“He talks at the drop of a pause.”

“So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.”

“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”

“To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.”

“America is a land where men govern, but women rule.”