The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it