I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.