Everything popular is wrong.
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
Irony is wasted on the stupid
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.