It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.

The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.