Even theories must have foundations.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

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.

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.