In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.