In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.