...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

“It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more impo…”

“I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long s…”

“you can not run away from weakness; you must fight it out... or perish.”

“And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out …”