The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

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

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.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

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.