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

Youth is the only thing worth having.

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.