Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

America is not a country, it is a world.