I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

If you haven't had your life what have you had?

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete