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

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.