There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?