Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes