Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.