The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

Some people always know the price, but not the value

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.