I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.