Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.