Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.