Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.