Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.