Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.