I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

Life is a great disappointment.