The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.