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

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives