Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.