Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

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

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.