Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.