The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

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

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.