The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.