Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.