American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.