One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

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

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.