Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

I have a simple taste, only the best.

We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.