"All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for…"

"Action in its essence, the creative art of a writer of fiction may be compared to rescue work carried out in darkness…"

"When the last aqueduct shall have crumbled to pieces, the last airship fallen to the ground, the last blade of grass …"

"For my own part, from a short and cursory acquaintance with my kind, I am inclined to think that the last utterance w…"

"The life-history of the earth must in the last instance be a history of a really very relentless warfare. Neither his…"

"All adventure, all love, every success is resumed in the supreme energy of an act of renunciation. It is the uttermos…"

"The earth itself has grown smaller in the course of ages. But in every sphere of human perplexities and emotions, the…"

"Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing. But it is also more than that; it stands on firmer ground, being…"

"A fine conscience is naturally a virtuous one. What is natural about it is just its fineness, an abiding sense of the…"

"Perhaps the only true desire of mankind, coming thus to light in its hours of leisure, is to be set at rest. One is n…"