I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

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

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?