I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.