The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.