The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..