America is not a country, it is a world.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.