Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.