What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.