Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it