Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.