Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

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.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

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