A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
To-day is always different from yesterday.
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.