Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.