He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.