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.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

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