We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.