Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.