What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

I work as my father drank.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.