Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

A burnt child loves the fire.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.