An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.