No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

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.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.