My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.