There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

One of the proud joys of the man of letters - if that man of letters is an artist - is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.