The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.