The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.