You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.