Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

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.

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.