Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.