Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.