The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.