It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.