Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.