Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.