“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
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Ideas are, in truth, force.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.