We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Be yourself, because others are already taken.