Quote #6061
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Quote #13594
Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands....
Quote #12344
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Quote #5702
To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or...
Quote #11411
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Quote #3492
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels;...
Quote #12496
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never...
Quote #24942
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the...
Quote #18416
Modesty and unselfishness–these are the virtues which men praise–and pass by.
Quote #565
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights...