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

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."