For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

I may be old fashioned, but I am right.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.