Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.

What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.