The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.