A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

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

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.