The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Nothing worth learning can ever be taught