Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.