True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
I don’t know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?
Each time you happen to me all over again.
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
It is less mortifying to believe one’s self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.
Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.
What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.