The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.