It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity and sets us at noting and contriving.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions, instead of controlling them, is trying to play the angel.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Each age it is found must write its own books, or rather each generation for the next succeeding.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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