To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.