A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

A bad book is as much labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.