Debauchery Is Perhaps An Act Of Despair

A Poet Is A Man Who Puts Up A Ladder To A Star And Climbs It While Playing A Violin.

The English Are Crooked As A Nation And Honest As Individuals. The Contrary Is True Of The French, Who Are Honest As A Nation And Crooked As Individuals.

Statistics Is The First Of The Inexact Sciences.

I Feel Sure That Coups D'état Would Go Much Better If There Were Seats, Boxes, And Stalls So That One Could See What Was Happening And Not Miss Anything.

One Of The Proud Joys Of The Man Of Letters - If That Man Of Letters Is An Artist - Is To Feel Within Himself The Power To Immortalize At Will Anything He Chooses To Immortalize. Insignificant Though He May Be, He Is Conscious Of Possessing A Creative Divinity. God Creates Lives; The Man Of Imagination Creates Fictional Lives Which May Make A Profound And As It Were More Living Impression On The World's Memory.