The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?