"Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else."

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

"You have delighted us long enough."

"One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other."

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on."

"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams."

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself."

"The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done."

"The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle."