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