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.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

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.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

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

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.