Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

Excellence does not require perfection.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.