When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

Vanity is man's love affair with himself.

Thus, I have found humbleness by the mere thoughts of having love beckon upon me, if so acquired through some thread of reality or that of the imaginative

Jesus loves hidden souls. A hidden flower is the most fragrant. I must strive to make the interior of my soul a resting place for the Heart of Jesus.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

The power is from within, but we cannot receive it unless we give it.

Everything nourishes what is strong already

I've got money so I'm a Conservative.

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.