Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.