What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.