America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.