You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.