From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.