“No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist”

“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle”

“Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune”

“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer”

“It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new”

“I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be”