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

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

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.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

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.

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

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