Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

We used to want our artists to be cigarette-smoking bohemian outsiders who were gonna take risks that the rest of us wouldn't.