Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

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

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.