If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.