People never want to be told anything they do not believe already..

Trapped dreams must die..

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal..

Patriotism is the religion of hell..

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all..

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three ….

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happening….

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life..

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong.

There is no gift more great than love..

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little be….

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief..

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple….

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perha….

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors..

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?.

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both ….

At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered..

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility..

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie..