What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.