Man Is The Inventor Of Stupidity.

Cliche Refers To Words, Commonplace To Ideas. Cliche Describes The Form Or The Letter, Commonplace The Substance Or Spirit. To Confuse Them Is To Confuse The Thought With The Expression Of The Thought. The Cliche Is Immediately Perceivable; The Commonplace Very Often Escapes Notice If Decked Out In Original Dress. There Are Few Examples, In Any Literature, Of New Ideas Expressed In Original Form. The Most Critical Mind Must Often Be Content With One Or The Other Of These Pleasures, Only Too Happy When It Is Not Deprived Of Both At Once, Which Is Not Too Rarely The Case.

Art Includes Everything Which Stimulates The Desire To Live; Science Includes Everything Which Sharpens The Desire To Know. Art, Even The Most Disinterested, The Most Disembodied, Is The Auxiliary Of Life.

A Definition Is A Sack Of Flour Compressed Into A Thimble

To Know What Everyone Knows Is To Know Nothing.

To Write Well, To Have Style ... Is To Paint. The Master Faculty Of Style Is Therefore The Visual Memory. If A Writer Does Not See What He Describes-countrysides And Figures, Movements And Gestures-how Could He Have A Style, That Is Originality?