The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.