Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.