Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.