Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.