Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

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.