All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order.

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.