Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.