High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.