 A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing. |
| It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. |
| If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one. |
| In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. |
| Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave. |
| A big iron needle stitching the country together. |
| There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. |
| Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. |
| Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. |
| We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint? |
| Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. |
| The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. |
| Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. |
| A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. |
| You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it. |
| Teaching is the royal road to learning. |
| I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. |
| A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. |
| The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate. |
| Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. |
