Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.