Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.