When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.