Pessimism Is The Affectation Of Youth, The

To Be Honest And Yet Popular Is Almost As Difficult In Literature As It Is In Life.

Only On The Surface Of Things Have I Ever Trod The Beaten Path. So Long As I Could Keep From Hurting Anyone Else, I Have Lived, As Completely As It Was Possible, The Life Of My Choice. I Have Been Free. . . . I Have Done The Work I Wished To Do For The Sake Of That Work Alone.

Women Like To Sit Down With Trouble - As If It Were Knitting.

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.

America Has Enjoyed The Doubtful Blessing Of A Single-track Mind.