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.

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

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.