All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.