I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.