A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.