I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.

When I am wicked I am in high spirits.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.