No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.