He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood