The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but …

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest-usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation-and in a family of peasants, wh…

I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothin…

You advise me, too, not to stray far from the ground of experience, as I become weak when I enter the region of fiction; and you say, 'real experience is peren…