Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.