I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.