Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.