There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.