Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.