Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

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.

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

Keeping or holding on to a concept shows belief but building or adding to it shows confidence and depth of character.

As for meat, let me say it upfront:Humans haven’t fully adapted to eating meat.

Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

We were not a band that typically would say, "Hello, Whatever Town!"

There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.