Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.