It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.