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

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.