A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.