A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.