Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.