I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

An artist must be a reactionary

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.