Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.