An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.