Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it