The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.

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

No loose fish enters our quiet bay.