If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.