It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

The #‎ cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.