They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.