My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

A kiss may ruin a human life