Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.