It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.