Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.