A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

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

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.