"It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry."

"When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant."

"There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years."

"His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son."