God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Life would be dull without them.

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.