No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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 nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.