There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.