In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words? — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you…a subtle and immortal spirit.” — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
People never want to be told anything they do not believe already. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer . Thus… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
