“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” 

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.” 

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” 

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.” 

Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy things are sweet-tempered.

The best part of health is fine disposition. It is more essential than talent, even in the works of talent.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men’s necessities.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” 

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” 

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” 

Men are better than their theology.

Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” 

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” 

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” 

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” 

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are.

So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: “Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life”.