American novelist.
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”
“Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, become terrible masters of men.”
“Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.”
“Families are always rising and falling in America.”
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you.”
“Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.”
“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool.”
