There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.