There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.