He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

California is an Italy without its art.