"A man's style is his mind's voice...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!”

“Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.”

“When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.”

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”

“The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.”

“As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.”

“Writing means revealing oneself to excess.”

“You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.”

“Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!”