In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.