We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.