I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel