It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.