It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.