We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.