“If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.”

“We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything happen in an orderly way and be logically conceived.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't know the destiny that is being worked out for them. They creep humbly along the ground, without the spacious aerial vision of their lives that would show them the destiny in store for them.”

“Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.”

“The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. We must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.”