To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.