What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.