Cruelty is the only sin.

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.