Who said “Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money,…”?

“A confession has to be part of your new life.”

“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.”

“The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.”

“If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- ''My Heart Laid Bare.'' But -- this little book must be true to its title.”

“He that jokes confesses.”

“We must love one another or die.”

“Criticism should be a casual conversation.”

“You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.”

“A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.”

“God bless the U.S.A., so large, So friendly, and so rich.”

“Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.”