Things always work according to their nature.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.