The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.