Quote #1889
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
Quote #1864
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has...
Quote #18347
Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and...
Quote #12004
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
Quote #18018
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow...
Quote #3035
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Quote #4349
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
Quote #11693
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a...
Quote #15611
A man’s women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and...
Quote #11537
The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is...