She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.