“I watch my thoughts, for they become words.
I watch my words, for they become actions.
I watch my actions, for they become habits.
I watch my habits, for they become character.
I watch my character, for it becomes My destiny.”


“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”