Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.