Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.