Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.