The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats