Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.