Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

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.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

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

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.