Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.