Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Adventure is the champagne of life.