I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.