Art should never be popular.

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.