Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

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.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.