Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

Sincerity is technique.

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.