The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.