I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.
I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.
Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
I wish I were braver, although I try.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
