The eye is easily frightened.
Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.
I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Being is the great explainer.
It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Standing on the doorstep of desire, I hold this bouquet like a gun and these vows like a petition for the death penalty.
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Accept your genius and say what you think.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
