The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

One should absorb the color of life.