Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.