Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.