What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.