Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.