“Criticism is not construction, it is observation.”

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

True invective requires great imagination.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Happiness is speechless.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

I didn’t take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that’s when I went to being the MVP.

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.

To become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.

In the construction of engines.entalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed.

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

Never worry about the delay of your success compared to others, because construction of a palace takes more time than an ordinary building.

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.