All great ideas are dangerous.

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.