People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.