Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

Action is character.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.