Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.