Ideas are, in truth, force.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.