In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

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

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.