“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

“Only the shallow know themselves.”

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

“Everything popular is wrong.”

“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”

“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”

“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”