I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Nature always levies her tribute.

The seasons run with swift feet.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?

I want to know God's thoughts.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

Success is the process of not accepting failure.

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.