Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.