The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.