One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.