I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.