Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.