All our knowledge is symbolic.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.