The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.