Occupation: Novelist Birth: April 22, 1873 Death: November 21, 1945
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated..
The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns..
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it..
There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone..
That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness..
A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short..
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward..
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions..
He knows so little and knows it so fluently..
Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for….
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds..
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance..
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens..
Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it..
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie..
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had..
Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none..
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality..
The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it..
Too much principle is often more harmful than too little..
I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me..