I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.