Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.