Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.