He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.