Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.