How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.