It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.