Every man has his secret sorrows.

I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.