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Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.

Tush! These are trifles, and mere old wives' tales.

But far more numerous was the herd of stfch, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Every man as he loveth, quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

When caught reading the Bible, W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men.

What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.

I never gossip, but I can give you the names of certain people who do.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

Memoirs: the backstairs of history.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st, James 2nd, and the Old Pretender.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.