You are Beautiful when you are happy

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

All art is quite useless.

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

Where your life leads you, you must go