Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Art is the sex of the imagination.

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.