Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.