A good friend will always stab you in the front.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.