The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

In art economy is always beauty.