"Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son."

"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be."

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."

"Boldness is a mask for fear, however great."

"But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed."

"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one."

"History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history."

"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."