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

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.