It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.