Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.