| It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. |
| A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. |
| We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. |
| 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. |
| A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. |
| A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. |
| It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable. |
