The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.