But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
California is an Italy without its art.
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.