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

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.