The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.