If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.

An epoch is but a swing of the pendullum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.