But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

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

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

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

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.