Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.

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

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

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.