It was only in the theatre that I lived

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.