Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.