Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

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

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

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

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.