Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
Music is the perfect type of art.
It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.