It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

... France is the genius among nations.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.

The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.