Novelist

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Dia yang ingin membujuk harus menaruh kepercayaannya bukan pada argumen yang benar, tetapi pada kata yang tepat. Kekuatan suara selalu lebih besar dari kekuatan indera.

Pikiran manusia mampu melakukan apa saja - karena segala sesuatu ada di dalamnya, semua masa lalu serta semua masa depan.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Hanya dalam imajinasi manusia setiap kebenaran menemukan keberadaan yang efektif dan tak terbantahkan. Imajinasi, bukan penemuan, adalah master seni tertinggi dalam hidup.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

The East Wind, seorang penyelundup di wilayah Westerly Weather, adalah seorang tiran berwajah tenang dengan seekor kuda poni tajam yang dipegang di belakang punggungnya untuk sebuah tikaman berbahaya.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Aksi bersifat menghibur. Itu adalah musuh pemikiran dan teman dari ilusi yang menyanjung.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.