Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.