When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.