It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.