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

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.

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.

Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

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

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

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.