There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.