Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

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

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously