It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.