I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.