“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.”
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A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
Going home must be like going to render an account.
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.