If A Writer Is True To His

Morale Is Not A Single Instinct. It Has Many Ingredients. A Sense Of Personal Responsibility, The Natural Courage Of An Individual, The Amount Of His Acquired Self-discipline -- And Above All His Interest In Others -- These Together Make Up The Spirit Of Morale.

If One Has One Cow, It Is Always Better Not To Be Too Familiar With Those Who Have Seven.

All Daughters, Even When Most Aggravated By Their Mothers, Have A Secret Respect For Them. They Believe Perhaps That They Can Do Everything Better Than Their Mothers Can, And Many Things They Can Do Better, But They Have Not Yet Lived Long Enough To Be Sure How Successfully They Will Meet The Major Emergencies Of Life, Which Lie, Sometimes Quite Creditably, Behind Their Mothers.

Curiosity Is The Only Thing That Really Carries Through Time, Isn't It? The Creative Curiosity, I Mean, Which Fights Its Way Into Expression?

Life Was A Series Of Messes, And One Spent One's Time Cleaning Them Up; If One Had Any Heart At All One Also Gave A Part Of One's Time To Cleaning Up Those Of Other People.