"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."

"You can make anything by writing."

"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."

"I was with book, as a woman is with child"

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."