A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

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

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