The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.