Novelist Quotes

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Have the courage of your desire.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

The best religion is the most tolerant.

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Business is other people's money.