The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.