In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.