The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. 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.

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)