Nature always levies her tribute.

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.

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

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.

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.

A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.

This was home. This was perfection. This was everything he'd never known he wanted. (Griff)

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

The worst things weren't outside of you.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.