Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

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

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.