To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.