Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.