A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.