To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.