I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.