The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.