Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.