Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
Every kind of writing is hypocritical.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.