It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.