Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

The best of all lost arts is honesty.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.