One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.