Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.