There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.