The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
Disobedience is man’s original virtue.
Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn’t mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.
Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their “Hub,” as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.
I find that forgiving one’s enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.
We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.