Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

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

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.

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

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.