Sceptics Are Yet The Most Credulous.

I Wish The Stage Were As Narrow As The Wire Of A Tighrope Dancer So That No Incompetent Would Dare Step Upon It.

Against Criticism A Man Can Neither Protest Nor Defend Himself; He Must Act In Spite Of It, And Then It Will Gradually Yield To Him.

Legislators And Revolutionaries Who Promise Both Equality And Liberty Are Visionaries And Charlatans.

Personality Is Everything In Art And Poetry.

It Is Belief In The Bible, The Fruits Of Deep Meditation, Which Has Served Me As The Guide Of My Moral And Literary Life. I Have Found Capital Safely Invested And Richly Productive Of Interest, Although I Have Sometimes Made But A Bad Use Of It.