The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.