“the country of the poor can be abandoned no longer. For i dread what is growing in that country now. I fear we shall reap a venomous crop”

“If any class deserves to be protected and assisted by the government, it is the class who are banished from their native land in search of the bare means of subsistence" Charles dickens, american notes”

“all of our trials are caused by restlessness, the refusal to accept the fact that limitations exist”

“When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.”

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”

“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”

“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.”