Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigi...
His experience of life in an office had made him determine never to have anything more to do with one ...
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
I'm one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience.
He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to think of the difference between himself and others.
But that wasn't the chief thing that bothered me: I couldn't reconcile myself with that preoccupation with sin that, so far as I could tell, was never entirely absent from the monks' thoughts. I'd kno...
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The crown of literature is poetry.
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they ca...
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their b...
You can never know enough about your characters
They ordered punch. They drank it. It was hot rum punch. The pen falters when it attempts to treat of the excellence thereof; the sober vocabulary, the sparse epithet of this narrative, are inadequate...
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daug...
I myself stand on one side and the rest of the world on the other. There is an abyss between, that no power can cross, a strange barrier more insuperable than a mountain of fire. Husband and wife know...
I have great affection for you, Roy I answered, but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd care to have breakfast with.