“Who gathers the withered rose?”

“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. ”

“No man can write who is not first a humanitarian”

“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”

“battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been generals, who were generals not through training in contemporary methods or aptitude for learning them, but by the divine right to say 'Go there' conferred upon them by an absolute caste system”

“He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either of them.”

“It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.”