Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

California is an Italy without its art.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.