My deepest impulses are optimistic an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become...
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
I know many married men I even know a few happily married men but I don't...
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in...
Women as they grow older rely more and more on cosmetics. Men as they grow...
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex...
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the...
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
