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.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

the best of all good friends is pride.

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?