There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Art should never be popular.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.