If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.