What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.