The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

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.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.