War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.