Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Only the shallow know themselves.