“ Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.”

“People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.”

“The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.”

“Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.”

“The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.”

“Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.”

“Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.”

“Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for approbation the peculiar elements that come from some supposedly Jewish heredity is to open the...”

“A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.”