The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.