I Have Known Men Who Have Been

Nature I Believe In. True Art Aims To, Represent Men And Women, Not As My Little Self Would Have Them, But As They Appear. My Heroes And Heroines I Want Not Extreme Types, All Good Or All Bad; But Human, Mortal--partly Good, Partly Bad. Realism I Need. Pure Mental Abstractions Have No Significance For Me.

Emulation Is Active Virtue; Envy Is Brooding Malice.

Petty Laws Breed Great Crimes.

The World Never Leaves One In Ignorance Or In Peace.

No Great Talker Ever Did Any Great Thing Yet, In This World.