Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.