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 qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.