Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.