Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

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.