Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.