“I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.”

“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”

“The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.”

“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”