There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.