It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
Great men always have dogs.
Great men have always had dogs.
Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.
Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.
I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.
Youth without faith is a day without sun.
Excess always carries its own retribution.
The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.
Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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