Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

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

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.