If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.