The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

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

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.