Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.