Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.