There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.