I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.