An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.