“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.”

“It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.”

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”

“Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say as accurately and effectively as he can, his style will take care of itself.”

“I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?”

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”