The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

There's no sin but stupidity.

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.