"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones."

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

Look twice before you leap.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.