What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

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

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

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

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.

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