This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

Bad manners make a journalist.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.