I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.