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 stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

Where your life leads you, you must go

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.