The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

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

She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

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