The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Every reformation ruins somebody.

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

The crickets still sing in October. And lilly, she's trying to bloom. Tho she's resting her head on the shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon.

There is only one attraction, one law, one power and that is the power of love.

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of Grub Street.

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and the feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.