America Has Enjoyed The Doubtful Blessing Of

Passion Alone Could Destroy Passion. All The Thinking In The World Could Not Make So Much As A Dent In Its Surface.

Women Are One Of The Almighty's Enigmas To Prove To Men That He Knows More Than They Do.

There Is No State Of Satisfaction, Because To Himself No Man Is A Success.

... To Be "literary" Appeared To My Deluded Innocence As An Unending Romance.

The Things I Feared Were Not In The Sky, But In The Nature And In The Touch Of Humanity. The Cruelty Of Children . . . The Blindness Of The Unpitiful - These Were My Terrors. But Not The Crash Of Thunder Overhead, Not The Bolts Of Fire From The Clouds.