A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.