To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
Books are never finished. They are merely abandoned.
We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.