It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.