Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

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

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.