6 quotes
Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
I do not seek to copy nature. I, on the contrary, create to divert me such faith and dreams as living among men would tend to destroy.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
The water of Haranton...is not like the water of other fountains, and curious dreams engender in this pool.
I can but entreat you to remember it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.
The Cream of the Jest : A Comedy of Evasions (1917)
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.
The Certain Hour (1916)