Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.