Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.